Laughs on every page. A premier league effort: this is Homby's best novel sinceHigh Fidelity... this is one treat that leaves you with a satisfied smile.

The jolliest novel Hornby has written.

Perhaps the funniest and most exhilarating novel ever written about group suicide. A long way up from much modem fiction, which seems to have been written to supply us with reasons to jump.

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all...But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.

Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living？